Sarah Asch
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Is your voter registration up to date? Now is the time to check (opens the original)
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In Texas, tens of thousands of voter registration applications have yet to be processed. They’re caught in a backlog after the Texas Department of Public Safety failed to send counties updated information on time. Last week, Texas counties started receiving old applications en masse. Travis County received 32,000 records from DPS overnight. In Bexar County, the tally was 45,000. In Harris County it was 75,000. So what do you do if you’re worried your voter registration might be affected? The fir
The country's biggest braille transcription center is inside this Texas prison (opens the original)
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Tucked in the back of a women's prison in Gatesville, 40 miles west of Waco, the Billman Braille Center is a hub of activity. Women in white jumpsuits transcribe textbooks on computers, while others practice their skills on Perkins Braillers — typewriter-like machines that punch dots into the page. Trichele Allen has been at the braille center for 11 years. She is transcribing the graphics in a college-level anatomy book. "We make the picture as big as we can for the page and then we do a key pa
Ken Paxton put out an AI-generated attack ad. He’s not the only one (opens the original)
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A new political ad put out by Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign claims his Democratic opponent in the U.S. Senate race, James Talarico, is weaponizing Christianity to sell a radical agenda. The ad shows AI-generated images of someone who looks like Talarico sitting at a desk, writing and reading out his thoughts about gender identity and feminism in the Bible. Rice University politics professor Mark Jones said the use of artificial intelligence in political advertising has grown exponential
Texas' Senate race is raking in cash. Who are the biggest donors for each candidate? (opens the original)
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The U.S. Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton is attracting big-dollar donors in Texas and beyond. Talarico is outraising Paxton, and the pro-Talarico super PAC has out-raised the pro-Paxton super PAC by 2-1. So who are these donors and what does this mean for the race? John Moritz, chief political reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, looked into some of the names and numbers. He said his biggest takeaway is just how much money some people are putting into
The Rio Grande is drying up. What does that mean for Texas? (opens the original)
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In the case of the Rio Grande, which stretches from Colorado to the Gulf, this isn't just some idle riddle. This river is one of the most threatened in the country and its fate is very much tied to the future of the Lone Star State. Texas Monthly contributor Jack Herrera said each year less than 15% of the natural flow of the Rio Grande makes it to the delta. "In huge stretches, hundreds of miles of stretches along this river, it's already running dry. And this is a huge problem because over 15
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